Dr Praveetha Patalay

Praveetha is currently Associate Professor with a joint appointment across the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL. She was the first PhD candidate to be affiliated with the EBPU (2011-2015), followed by a post-doctoral position at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (2015-16) and a Lecturer/Senior Lectureship at the University of Liverpool (2016-18). She is interested ​ in​ mental health through the lifecourse, including prevalence, development, antecedents, consequences and interventions to promote better mental health. She was awarded the British Psychological Society's 2015 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology.

Praveetha worked at the EBPU as Research Assistant (2010-11), was the unit’s first PhD student (2011-2014) and was Research Fellow (2014-15). Ongoing collaborations including on school based mental health intervention evaluations, secondary data analysis and co-supervising an EBPU PhD student.

About EBPU associates

EBPU associates are honorary staff who:

• are committed to the values of EBPU 
• have  proven expertise in a relevant area 
• are in a position to help develop and/or disseminate evidence- and outcomes-informed practice relevant to our work
• are interested in collaborating with EBPU.

If you are interested in becoming an EBPU Associate, please contact us at ebpu@annafreud.org

Associate membership is an honorary position that is reviewed regularly and may be subject to change at the discretion of the EBPU board.